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BEAME-ING STUDENTS-These P.8. 153 school children and others throughout N.Y.e. would have been the real victims of school budget cuts had it not been for Abe Beame, city controller, who allocated additional school funds Thursday.
1 A" Ce Members Electerif,fl Bldg. Votes Thursday Buildings 22, 25 and the Townhouses of Section One elected Advisory Council representatives March 4th. The winning candidates are listed below. Building 22 Stanley Chabinsky, Jeanette Graves, Rae Gurfield, and Joseph Laznow, Building 2G William E. Berry, Sandra Gabler, Ed Levine, and Murry Safran. Townhouses of Sect. 1 Ruby Goles and Eugene M. Kaufman.
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Harold Ostroff, president of Riverbay Corp., was charged at Monday's Advisory Council (AC) meeting with ignoring the decision of the Council on the construction of a gasoline station at the corner of Bayches ter and Bartow Avenues. The station would be owned and operated by a private concern and located outside of Co-op City.
Due to the extremely bad A Bureau of Standards weather Thursday, March Mr. Ostroff in November, 4th, the Meet Your Candi1970 was produced to subdates and Nominations Meet- stantiate the charge. ing for Advisory Council The AC voted in January representation for Building to oppose the building of the 21 was rescheduled to Thursgas . station. Therefore, the day, March 11th at 8 P.M. Côuncíl wanted to know why in the Community Room, . they were not informed about the November consent Building 22A. -forrn, and why the consent Elections for Advisory was not withdrawn as was Council representation for the case with the consent Building 21 will be held on from the Dollar Savings Thursday, March 18th, be- Bank. Mr. Ostroff explained that tween the hours of 4 P.M. he was notified of a hearing and 8 P.M., in Auditorium A of the Community Center. regarding the re-building of
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a gas station last November. He responded by signing a consent · form. Because of prior commitments made in 1964 in connection with the purchase of the land for Coop City, this was considered routine. For this reason, Mr. Ostroff did not believe the matter merited any specific mention to anyone at that time. Unfortunately, the action in November was not identified with the decision of the AC in January. In this connection, Mr. Ostroff noted that when he was asked in January to send a letter in behalf of Riverbay declaring that there was no objection to a variance for the gas station, he refused to do so because of the decision of the Advisory Council.
When Mr. Ostroff was informed about the charge of the Advisory Council, he immediately sent a letter to Lawrence Sivak, chairman of the Advisory Council, explaining his position. The text of that letter follows : Dear Larry: I understand that at last night's Advisory Council meeting there was quite a discussion about the building of a service station on the corner of Bartow and Baychester A venues. At the time we acquired the property for Co-op City from National Development Corporation this specific area was not included in our land purchase with the clear understanding that the gas station that existed there would · be rebuilt when the ( Contin u ed on Page 4)
The Advisory Council set aside a considerable amount of time during its meeting evening in order to prepare questions for an informational meeting for cooperators to be conducted by the Board of Directors of the Riverbay Corporation March 22nd.
S&1t11rda,T l~x1:-:1·ess The Board of Directors will be meeting in Co-op City for the first time and it is Sta:1·ts AJ~ . 3 felt that meaningful questions relating to the fiscal welfare of Co-op City wm be most Serrvi~e
necessary. Advisory Council members as well as all coopera tors are invited to participate in the meeting. During the course of the Advisory Council meeting Monday a number of questions were raised concerning anticipated construction and operational expenditures. Information had been provided management concerning past construction and operational budgets. It was the general feeling of the Advisory Council members that the time 'had ·arrived to discuss the and the future. the
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rent increase, how much will it be and when will it take place? (N at Eisner). 2) There is presently a rent disparity among sections. What can be done to equalize the rents? How can it be done and when will it be done? Should a rent increase come about, will all cooperators receive an across the board percentage increase or will there be an increase per room so that the rent disparity will not be compounded'? (Gerald Zelenetsky) 3) A rent increase will be determined to an extent the hundred million dollar bond issue which still must be floated in order to com-
plete Co-op City's construction. When will this be done and who will make the decision to do it"? (Harvey Mateovsky) 4) There are a number of questions to ask concerning this hundred mililon dollar bond issue. HO\v does the withholding of the sale of bonds effect the costs of our operating budget? If the bond issue was floated in today's market, what would the cost of the bonds be in terms of additional carryingcharges'? At what rate of interest would we like the bonds to be sold in order to prevent increase"? How can we hold out for rate on
Saturday express bus service between Co-op City and midtown Manhattan will start on Saturday, April 3rd, according tQ Bronx Borough President Robert Abrams. Mr. Abrams had repeatedly requested that the New York Bus Service Inc., which presently operates the Monday-Friday express bus service from Co-op City to Manhattan, institute Saturday service. In announcing new expanded express service, Mr. Abrams released the texts of correspondence between himself and Edward Arrigoni, President of the New York Bus Service:
visits to Co-op City, and also by way of considerable incoming mail, I have received numerous requests for the establishment of express bus service from Co-op City to midtown Manhattan on Saturdays. Clearly, there are hundreds if not thousands of Co-op City resident" who would like the àvaiiabirity of express bus service on Saturdays to shop in Manhattan, go to the theatre or restaurants, and of course there are many individuals who work on Saturdays, too. Our experience in ter and Riverdale has shown that Saturday service is an
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